Drink tea for your heart, Japanese say

Published 4:00 am, Friday, March 17, 1995

LONDON - Green tea can protect against heart and liver disease, Japanese researchers report. They found that the more tea you drink, the more you reduce your risk.

The findings, using only male subjects, lend support to previous test tube and animal studies that suggest that chemicals in green tea may ward off heart disease. The results will be published in Saturday's issue of the British Medical Journal.

The researchers studied the lifestyles and tea-drinking habits of 1,370 middle-aged men living in Yoshimi, near Tokyo, and analyzed their blood. They compared three groups of men: those who drank up to three cups a day, four to 9 cups a day, and more than 10 cups a day.

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Dr. Kazue Imai, an epidemiologist at the Saitama Cancer Center Research Institute in Saitama, Japan, wrote that the researchers found high consumption - especially more than 10 cups a day - reduced potentially harmful blood fat levels.&lt;